7 wonders of the modern world

The Red Ribbon, Qinhuangdao, China

A kind of sinuous scarlet bench, the Red Ribbon snakes for half
a kilometre through Tanghe River Park, a reclaimed green space in
the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao. Four pavilions are dotted along
its dragon's-tail length. They consist of white canopies in
irregular, ink-blot shapes - stylised clouds, perhaps - where you
can rest in the shade and contemplate the silver strip of the
adjacent river. But the Red Ribbon, designed principally by
Kongjian Yu of Turenscape, is more than an attenuated place to sit:
it is also a children's climbing frame and a walkers' path. And it
is at its most attractive and spectacular at night, when it glows
like a tightly packed string of Chinese lanterns.